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N. PETERS. FNDTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTDN. D. C.

let-ted Statief@ @met @Biblica WILLIAM P. DEMAREST, OF BROOKLYN, NIIW YORK.

Lette/rs Patent N 101,593, dated April 5, 1870.

IMPROVED SHOE-TRIMMING.

The Scheule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same Shoe-Trimmings; and the following is declared to be a correct description of the same.

Bows and trimmings for shoes have heretofore been made ot' satin, silk, and ribbon, cut out to shape and sewed together, and kid has also been embroidered by hand with chains of stitching, and other shapes of fancy needle-work.

The braiding or embroiderin g is cost-l y, especially when made with suicient care to be uniform, and the bows of satin and similar material, being comparatively soft, are quickly crumpled, frayed out, and loose their st-itfness, and become a useless disguration instead of an ornament, especially from the contactl of the lower edge of a ladys skirt with such trimmings.

lhe object of my invention is to cheapen the bows and shoe-trimmings, and render them more durable, withoutdetracting from their ornamental appearance.

I make use of leather or an imitation thereof', or other material with a surface of the. desired color and polish or iinish in imitation of satin, silk, or other matelial, and eut out,by means of dies, the blanks ot' the shape required for the bow or shoe-trimming, and I emboss the surface of such material hy dies, in imitation of rows of stitching, braiding, or other needlework ornamentation, and the separate pieces forming the bow or shoe-trimming are sewed together ready to be attached to the shoe.

The bow or trimming made iu this manner is a new article of manufacture that is. much stl/onger and more durable than the bows heretofore made, and the appearance, especially at the distance from which .the

shoe-bow is usually observed, is but littleinferior, it' not equal, to the more cost-ly bows and shoe-trimmin gs made up and embroidered with needle-work.

In the drawings- Figure l is a side view, and `Figure 2 is a plan of a bow illustrating my improvement.

The wings a of the bow are embossed with the imitation lilies of needle-work embroidery at b, and a rosette, c, of embossed leather is introduced inside the ornamental buckle.

The style of embossing is to be in accordance with the embroidery, braiding, or other needlevork to be imitated, and the shape of the bow or ornamental shoe-trimming is to be such as desired.

That I claim as my invention is- The bow or shoe-trimming, madeaud embossed iu the manner specified, as a new article of manufacture.

Signed hy me this 9th day of February, A. D. 11870. -Viitnessem WILLIAM l. DEMAREST.

HAROLD Hummm, Guo. T. PrNCKNEY. 

